Board analysis shows a per-cell comparison of the word you guessed versus the best possible word the game found when building the board. Use it to understand where you scored well and where you left points on the table.
Accessing board analysis
After all 9 cells are filled, the game asks: “See an analysis comparing your answers to the best board?” Select yes to open the analysis dialog.
How the analysis is structured
The analysis is a slide-by-slide dialog with 10 slides total: one for each of the 9 cells, followed by a summary slide.
Use the Prev and Next buttons to move between cell slides. On the final summary slide, the navigation buttons are hidden and replaced by the close button.
Cell slides
Each of the 9 cell slides shows:
- Row and column labels — the two categories that intersect at that cell (e.g., “Starts with vowel · 5 letters”)
- Your word — the word you guessed, with the points it earned
- Best word — the high-rarity word the board generator chose for that cell, with its point value
- Points missed — the gap between your score and the best score for that cell
- Status rating — a label describing how close your word was to the best
Status ratings
| Rating | Condition |
|---|
| Perfect match | Your word exactly matches the best word |
| Almost perfect | Your score is at least 90% of the best score |
| Close | Your score is at least 60% of the best score |
| Needs work | Your score is at least 30% of the best score |
| Very bad | Your score is less than 30% of the best score |
| Eliminated | The cell was eliminated in Expert mode |
Summary slide
The final slide shows overall statistics for the completed board:
| Stat | Description |
|---|
| Score | Your total score out of the maximum, with percentage |
| Cell points | Sum of your cell scores vs. sum of all best cell scores |
| Matched cells | Number of cells where you found the exact best word (out of 9) |
| Eliminated | Number of cells eliminated in Expert mode |
| Points missed | Total points difference between the best board and your board |
| Guesses used | Total number of guess attempts across all cells |
Pay attention to cells rated “Needs work” or “Very bad” — these show which category combinations reward longer or rarer words, helping you score higher on future boards.
The “best word” is the high-rarity word the board generator selected when building the puzzle. It may not be the single highest-scoring word possible for that cell intersection — there could be other valid words with a higher rarity score that the generator did not choose.